A pair of gentlemen sporting AK-47s and waiting for you is usually a bad sign.

But for freestyle wrestler James Green, they were the passport to first-class treatment, courtesy of UFC lightweight title challenger Khabib Nurmagomedov, who on April 7 faces interim champ Tony Ferugson at UFC 223 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Green, a two-time world champion and NCAA Division-I wrestler for the University of Nebraska, showed up in Dagestan expecting to wrestle and go home. His armed escort had other ideas.

“They had this other guy, like the English interpreter,” Green told FloWrestling. “They’re like, ‘Do you guys know Khabib? Khabib told these guys to show you a good time – take care of you.'”

And take care of him in the good way. Green and his teammates soon found themselves shuttled around town in an armed car, shopping alone at a shopping center, and gorging gratis while the escort waited outside.